Beech Mountain Surprisingly Epic MTB Day Trip

Okay. So after some preparation, finding GoPro mounts and socks, I thought I lost my shoes. Colin and I are now on the lift. Boom. You know, this is a bike with Colin. Also the bike park manager at Colo Bike Park. That stuff information down below. We're excited to be back at the park today. I'm doing shakedowns of first bike park trip. Have you been to the bike park this year? Yes. Okay. So it's just me slacking, but a lot of trail building has been taking place and I'm super stoked. So let's jump on that bike. Thank you, sir. Okay. Quick shakedown of the bike. We've got a few issues. My wind deflector. I don't know how much wind it's deflecting. Colin, come here. So as a wind diffuser, how well do you think that's working? Terrible? So cash run, cash run, cash run down the blue trail. This is going to be the, oh, oh, where's Colin going? Oh, he didn't want to miss the first berm. So this is going to be the indigo trail. Oh, okay. It's a little sandy, a little dry. Oh, might need some glasses. Sharp turn there. There's a nice new chicane they did here. Wow. Braking bumps are terrible. They are rough. Okay. Here we go. Boom. It's nice and key as you run. Ooh, pedal strike and following Colin's line. Colin's crazy, man. Cutting him short. Okay. Okay. Let's keep running. You're good? You're going to be okay? Yeah. Yeah, the brake bumps are real for sure. Keep your heels down. Heels down. Oh my God. Did you just jump into the rock garden? Into the rock garden? That's what it looked like. Yeah, let's go up trail and roll in this one hot. So we got a little jump right off the rip. A rock gap. Probably like 15 foot out. Not bad though. He's going to hop with it. This guy looks like he's going to jump it. Look. See how fast he's going? Is he going to jump it? No, no, he's going to, he's a, the road gap's down that way though. Killing it. Wheelie, man. All right. Let's run it. Those rocks are actually used as a little bit of a landing now. That wasn't bad. Oh, ain't seen that one. Collin with the hop hoppies. Hoppy McHopperson. So, ooh, a little jump sucked in. Those are nice. Okay. There's like a big rock boulder coming up. You got to pedal that. Okay, it's coming out in the next one. Woo-hoo! That was a pretty good one. Ooh, there's a rock in the middle. Woo-hoo! Oh, this is a terrible one. I hate that one. The weird gapping. Super blown out. Super blown. These are some lines on the inside there. They're probably going to mess with on another runs. Whoa! Oh, super blown out. Stay with the program. Not jumping the tape. We'll let Collin have that one. That was the broken collarbone story from Landy. Nice tire grab from Collin. A little bumpy. Quick laps. A little hand pump. Yo, first run down on the blue trail. Pretty solid, man. I feel like a little rotten mechanine instinct out there. He just took the side cut on that versus jumping the rock garden. Yo, first run down. Pretty solid. You're very poppy. Nice ride, and I saw you get that one-hander. Tire grab. Tire grab was pretty solid. I was like, okay, check out my boy Collin throwing it out there. So here's one of the features here is a drop they put in. Pretty clean. It looks like they've made the landing taller than it was, which is super nice. It was a little sharp last time I was here. So we're going to hit that, and there's that drop. What do you think that is? Probably edge of rock to landing. Five down. Five down? Five down, five six out. Let's get a little side angle. So it's really not that bad. Looking up at it, it's kind of scary. I think you roll up. I think the top of it is like you have to hop, pre-hop it a little bit, but it's probably like four foot by three foot. You just kind of pre-hop the end, but don't kind of roll off of it. Three on a DJ. You said you're on three on a DJ? Yeah, that'd be perfect. Staying nice and chill. Oh, that's a ******* interesting one. This is sucks. I remember dropping it on this, on the downhill bike, just to say I did it, because I had the downhill bike. Very rocky, very rocky. I just can't tell where the **** I went, to be honest. Come through a little smoother next time. Sorry for the language. You should be able to double that. Would you still double that? I think our homies, this is a little bit aggressive for them. Remember, you gotta do a right turn up here. Wow, that's, to be honest, that's probably better than it was. Yeah, there's no road gap. Chamberlain's gap is a fail. I guess it's the other double black there. Yeah. You guys making a video? No? Okay, I'm waiting for that video. Cane break, intermediate jump line. You did pass the sign, I'll give you that. You looked right, you looked apart. Oh, that's nice pack. This is nice. Oh, okay. High side. Whoa, almost didn't get that one. I wasn't expecting that and pulled deep for it. Landed sideways. Colin's kind of a cheater. He definitely got some nice ups with no speed. I actually gotta give him gaps so I can carry more speed in. That's a pretty good size step down there. Oh, kind of cased that one. This is more rocky than it was. Oh, rock art exposure. Oh, that's a good one. A little speed there. I'm running now. Once they grab on us, let's just go. We're going to keep dropping. Losing rear brakes. Oh, that's pretty cool. Big wall. Oh, even if you missed that one, you still can hit it. Some breaking bumps. Loose rock, nothing too terrible. Oh, there's so much better than. Oh, Colin's making it happen. I'm not chasing it. Oh, don't overshoot that one. Oh, oh, oh, oh. It's better to stay closer, but the dust won't get me. Just came back, realized I had to format a cart. Welcome back. We've done a few laps. We're taking a break. We did two runs. We are getting a little snackaroo. I got a little egg McMuffin action. Everybody's bikes are dire. We downed the front tire pressure a little bit for everybody. Worked pretty smooth. We just hit the jump line. We hit a green line. I think we're actually going to do a full pull from the top. Boom, here we are. We're kind of racking up. Some more people are showing up, having a good time, good laps on the list. I think we're going to do this cane break connector trail and then do the full jump line pull. And then next, I don't know what we're going to do, Colin. What? Double black. We'll probably throw on some full, I'll throw a full face for that one actually. Just in case this money maker is going to stay pretty. Oh yeah, yeah. Go ahead. Good? I mean, that's a lot. My chain is still chopped off. Go ahead, Kevin. Go ahead, dawg. That was weird. Pop it. Yeah, I was like, what the hell is happening to me? I hit a saddle. Yeah, it's trying to stay left if it goes left. Take it easy. Oh, I'm good. I snuck that tree. I saw what you were trying to do. See that? All right, cool. Hey, the center of gravity is messed up. It's not your fault. No, if that tree wasn't there, that'd be fun. Yeah, I was like, what just happened? It's like the best trail here, dude. Much more techie. Yeah. You good? Oh, I'm good. Is it still there? Oh, it's the second one. You got to get a lot closer. Oh, front tire slide. A little flat. That was all the way flat. A little flat there. The rock feature. I don't know, it looks like it's a little, is it any better than it was? There's more burr. Oh yeah, it was way shorter before. So you can't see any of that burr right now, but it was super short. And it was tough. You can see people were just brapping out down there, just a bunch of sand in the bottom. Just slap it. I mean, yeah, that's probably what we would end up doing. There's the beeline. I mean, there's some rocks down there we might want to watch out. But to go around is a lot easier for people. It's just really. Yeah. Get it, son. You could go down this right line too. It's on. That's blue. Stopping. Gonna gap up a little bit. Stopping. Off-screen? Off-screen. Zoom's in space, too. There's nothing crazy right now. No, it'll lead us into that same rock garden as earlier. It's just a little steeper. Just telling them about the trail. What may or may not be true. That was fun. I took a completely different line from you, but it was still pretty cool. Where you going, buddy? I got that. I didn't crash. So riding today, I think the motto is going to be Beach Mountain. Surprisingly epic. So I came to Beach Mountain today and I was looking for Brent and I couldn't find Brent, but I found his wife. So, hey Brent, sorry we missed you, but we're actually going to go ahead to the lift. We'll see you around. I don't know what just happened there. Every time I come here. Yeah, this actually, the first one didn't used to be a, the first one didn't used to be a turn off. That was so shitty. That was crazy, right? I'm glad you're hanging out partying, bud. Should've let the front hang down. That was terrible. And I made it. You should definitely not point your front end down unless you got big gun shows. Yeah, I should've went a lot slower. Probably. But I did it. And that's what you gotta do, right Colin? Sometimes you gotta not worry about it and you go figure it out on the way down. I mean, it's still there. You've seen it from the lift. How bad could it be? I landed full front wheel. Did you? I didn't see you. I would say go slower than you think because the landing's already there. So go slow. Go slow, front wheel lift. Oh, dialed. Dude, the drop wasn't bad. You broke your GoPro? Mine's semi-working. Dude, the bypass is just fine for the record. Bypass is pretty legit too. There you go. Good handling. Nice and dialed. It wasn't bad, dude. Go slower than you think because the landing of how high you are when you come off of it, the landing is way sooner than you think. So you really just gotta just roll off and put the nose down. I jumped and I was like full front tire. Like I should have died. Like I used all my travel. 160. Yeah. So yeah, so just go slow, bro. Just lean back. Don't push. Let's get it. Oh ----, dude. Yeah. Your friend is nuts. He is, his friend is nuts, dude. Yeah. Yeah, he just did that. Oh ----, guys. You land on there? There's a hole in between the rocks though. So you gotta land. You can land here. Like you see many people. I'm probably not gonna do this. It doesn't make sense. I do need a landing. Yeah. Yeah, bud. Nice work, man. Yeah, man. You ready for the next one? Let's go. Pony up, boys. Yeah, I'm not doing this one. I'm not doing this one. Are you gonna do it? I think it got worse. You're doing this drop on the, he's doing this drop. See what happens. That's what just happened on that feature. Dude, the other week I said that was suicide. I'm never doing that. I almost ate it really hard. Just now? I did too. Yeah, I landed super front heavy. Yeah, I was like, I should've got the bike down sooner. He hit his neck, bro. He went like. I am with you, Colin. I'm going so chill off this. Dude, I'm going to the right anyways. I'm going to the right. I don't care. I'm going to the right. I'm going to the right, dude. I don't care. No, nothing hurts my feelings about that. Oh, oh. Okay. This is just nice and chill and proper, really. Like not knowing what's down here. Kind of holding some brake action, but for the most part, it's pretty solid. Oh man, it's like a tiny drop, bro. This is tiny. You can roll through there now. That's nothing. Right off that one. Yeah. All right. I think we, do we, do we look at it? Do we look at it enough? He's been just going from right there. I was rolling right here. I don't care. It's the, the landing's so built up now. Yeah. You just stay right. Levi's dropping it. It's so small. So I'm not even going to go up anymore. All right, cool. I'm just going to go ahead and hit it. That's nothing. Nothing. That's not even worth talking about anymore. All right. Oh ----. Oh, oh ----. Oh ----. Here we go. Oh, oh ----. In that gap. Oh ----. Oh ----, yo. Oh ----. Landing free collarbone. Yep. Wow. Chain. Wow, there's all kinds of tension on this. That's crazy. I have no idea. There's a whole bunch of ---- going on here. Holy ----. Okay. Derailer there. I'm going to pull to the side. I don't know. This is, this is interesting looking. Yeah, yeah. It's like caught in my wheel though. So this got yanked right around the back of that somehow. Is it on the jump? I have no idea. Never had that happen before. Is this bent? Oh, my derailer is unscrewing from the hanger. Okay. So this chain goes that way. Ow, you son of a. What do I want to do here? Yep. So, change of pace real quick. We're about to have to go chainless because the derailer sucked in there. The chain's super bent. I don't have a spare one with me. So we're going to tighten up my derailer and then we're going to go do some chainless runs. So the feature right here, totally super simple. No one should be afraid of it. It's really like a two foot, three foot drop once we got over there. And it's super simple. Everybody should be smashing this feature on the black trail. Agreed? Agreed. Okay. Where are we going? I'm following you, Collin. I just got to follow Cammie on. Getting some footy for the boys. You want to get out front? I'm chainless, so I'm limited. Oh. It's weird. Chainless. Huh? I mean, it's not bad. You know what I mean? But sometimes you get like a little bit of that back pressure with the pedals is nice. Ooh. I'm still, I don't think I'm going to be able to jump that rock down there, but I'll be all right. That was a good hop. I liked that last one. Kind of landed on a root ball, but better than a rock. Where are we going? I have to walk my bike. I'm going to pedal somewhere? Is that a good joke? Is that a silly joke you just said? He goes, I'm going to pedal on a paw. Just a reminder, guys. There's no, there's no chain-a-roo on there. Need to do some maintenance when I get back to the house. Oh man. Or you guys could just suck it up and tow me with a regular bike. That's cool. All right, we're going to walk it out. Feel like we're about to get it, son. I am feeling a little tired too, though. Maybe, maybe you should just let me chain. Although in the season, this trail is going to be so, so rough. Oh. It's like the only line we know now is this really janky one. What? You just went chainless? Chainless, still tape gapping it, not me. Oh, uh-oh. Landy. Biffed it there pretty good. I'll catch up trail speed. Oh. Well, anyway. All right. Yeah. All right. This trail is sketching up or you're not really sure what's happening. You gotta learn some corners. Oh. Oh, it's very tight. Oh, taking the inside. Oh, super low on the inside. Okay, so I don't think we know the line through there yet. I think our GoPro monitor is ----. I'm ready, Colin. Or, uh, yeah, yeah, yeah. No, no, because I want follow cam. So, might as well go first then. No pedals, no chain. That's such an awkward one. All right, boom. This trail is nice and packed in here. I mean, not for long, but this is the rock drop we did earlier. Super rad. Kind of blown there. Oh, he goes so high. Yeah, that one's silly. Yeah, yeah. That one's going to throw you off the trail one day. That one's awkward. Oh, that one was terrible. Okay. This is a pretty big jump for sure. Come on, I'm chainless. Hurry up. More speed. This is just really weird. I'm not sitting in that. Colin with the suey. Let's call it a successful day at the beach, boys. I'm good. I'm so good. I don't think you really slayed that. We came out, we smashed, broke some bike parts. It's good. Till the next beach mountain. See ya.